Bucky Brooks explains why he LOVES the fit for Kyler Murray in Minnesota

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Former NFL player, scout and current co-host of "Move the Sticks" and "The Bucky Brooks Show" Bucky Brooks joins Matthew Coller to talk about Kyler Murray's fit with Kevin O'Connell's offense. He also explains why the NFL Draft scouting process is so complicated and what he learned from playing in the NFL. Bucky also talks about his vision for JJ McCarthy in the future, explaining why he still has a chance to make it in the NFL and who he'd take with the 18th overall pick in the NFL Draft for the Minnesota Vikings. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul.
0:26.3	Matthew Collar here.
0:27.5	And on the show today, all right, now we welcome into the show a very, very special guest.
0:33.4	He's got the Bucky Brooks show now, but you may know him from such shows as
0:38.8	Move the Sticks.
0:40.2	Bucky Brooks and Daniel Jeremiah, one of my favorite podcasts.
0:43.1	Can't tell you, Bucky, how much I have learned about scouting NFL players through that show.
0:48.2	But I want to welcome you to the show with a little story about a young Matthew Collar growing up in Buffalo in the year
0:54.2	1994.
0:55.5	It was a preseason game where a wide receiver goes down the sideline, catches a spectacular
1:01.5	touchdown.
1:02.3	And I said, you know what?
1:03.7	That's the next Andre Reid right there.
1:05.5	The Buffalo Bills just drafted.
1:07.3	That man's name is Bucke Brooks.
1:09.6	And well, it didn't quite work out like that. You did have an NFL career. You switched to defensive back, played for a couple different teams in the NFL, and have made a heck of a media career for yourself. But I thought you were the one, Bucky. I thought you were the next, Andre. I thought, man, I can't believe the bills have this guy. And Andre Reed, it's unbelievable. Yeah, no, it was, look, it was a fun
1:29.6	journey. I learned a lot on that journey, but that rookie preseason was a lot of fun for me.
1:35.0	A lot of things kind of fell into place and those things. It was unfortunate that I couldn't
1:39.3	continue to have it work out in Buffalo, but certainly I learned a lot, had a great time.
1:44.7	You are one of a ton of people that I've met from my time in Buffalo.
1:48.8	And so I'll always cherish those memories in Buffalo, regardless how it turned out.
1:52.5	I mean, those teams were incredible.
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